The Currie Roadshow winds up its Adelaide leg today before the 22-wheel mobile showroom takes off across the Nullarbor for next week’s event in Perth. Currie’s iconic demonstration truck yesterday attracted crowds of local printers to the West Adelaide Football club at the City Mazda Stadium.

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Canon Australia has made its fourth acquisition in four years, buying New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and outsourcing company Converga for an undisclosed sum.

There are many ways printers and publishers can improve staff productivity but if you’ve already exhausted the possibilities of dress down Fridays and booze-it-up Wednesdays, try opening the windows and see if it makes a difference to how well people do their jobs.

Company owners, Richard (53) and Steve Wilkinson (57), “win the lottery” by selling the assets of their Adelaide laminating and foiling business to Griffin Press’ arch book-printing rival, McPherson’s, a division of OPUS.

Printing and marketing company IVE Group is preparing a surprise attempt at an IPO less than six months after it cancelled an unsuccessful offering in June. Marketing is to begin as early as next week and IVE Group is expected seek a $150m enterprise value – down from $200m last time.

Australian Paper has thrown its support behind Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week that begins on Monday. The country’s largest paper mill is offering a free carton of Reflex White 100% recycled paper to the first 500 workplaces that register for the Friday File Fling event.

Jessica McAuley from Drum Print in WA has won the $15,000 Visual Connections – LIA national scholarship prize at the PICA QLD awards. Robert Smithers of Dominion Print Group NSW collected the LIA – Printing Industries Future Leaders Award and will enjoy a fully paid trip to drupa 2016.

Print technology developer EFI has signed with Ricoh to make its newest Fiery digital front ends (DFE) available to drive Ricoh’s high-speed Pro C9100/C9110 production printer series.

Wide-format manufacturer Roland DG released its new Texart XT-640 inkjet printer for the textile printing industry. The XT-640 is designed for the production of sportswear, fashion, soft signage, interior decoration and promotional merchandise.

Iconic industry demonstration truck heading west to Adelaide and then across the Nullarbor Plains to Perth in November bringing the latest in graphic arts equipment to the states.

Melbourne trade printer Q Print Finishing Services has collapsed into voluntary administration and creditors will meet to consider a public auction of the equipment. “At our peak, we had 150 printers coming to us with work but over the past few years we lost several major accounts."

Brisbane printer Platypus Graphics has won the coveted Judges Choice award and four other categories at this year’s PICA QLD event. The 22nd annual event in Brisbane attracted a crowd of 365, the largest in six years, and the awards were spread over a wide range of printing businesses.